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@Yaron10 > I meant that NPP should prompt the user **on startup**. > There are other possible messages on startup. For example: if stylers.model.xml & stylers.xml are missing. On startup...

@Yaron10 > , and indeed complicates it even further OTOH. :) And this is the reason that I will not continue further here (e.g. by creating a pseudo- or POC-code...

@donho > [The PR](https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/pull/14168) done by @molsonkiko is close to what has suggested by @xomx - has anyone tried this PR? I tried. But when I was at this place...

@nickdavi > Right now I just have the message box displaying "{filename} cannot be opened." Is this acceptable? or is there a better way to handle this? Hello, thanks for...

@nickdavi I see that your PR was rejected. I expected so (I hoped that somebody else will solve this issue, but at the end I spent more of my time...

@donho > The problem is indeed due to globbing variable. Have you any global solution ? Yes, I think so. > What's the correct treatment for such name? N++ has...

@white-gthb Do you have a link to some MS documentation about this? I could not find any. What I tried: - create a set of files (file1.txt, file2.txt and file3.txt)...

@white-gthb > I think the API functions FindFirstFileW and FindFirstFileExW work with \\?\ prefix and using wildcards. So the parsing of wildcards still occurs when the \\?\ prefix is used....

@donho > Could you elaborate the term "raw filename" please? By the "raw" I mean here filenames escaped by the "\\\\?\\" (or \\\\?\\UNC\\) prefix. These, for which is all the...

@donho Run the cmd and type there: notepad.exe \\\\?\\your_existing_filename_with_absolute_path notepad.exe \\\\?\\UNC\\servername\\sharename\\path\\filename e.g. notepad.exe \\\\?\\C:\\Windows\\win.ini notepad.exe \\\\?\\UNC\\name-of-your-PC\\admin$\win.ini